Real Women Drink Akvavit:So, are they not trained in how to use a taser on a dog? That would have seemed a safer alternative, considering the setting.

I hadn't really thought about it before, but can tasers even be used on dogs safely? Most dogs weigh a good deal less than an adult human does, I wonder if there is a minimum weight required to avoid killing them.

Was talking to my little internet buddy about this a couple hours ago. She lives in Philadelphia. She said this was pretty much a normal reaction for the cops in that town.

Simply put, cops are assholes. They're assholes because they're cops, and they're cops because they're assholes. Police departments aren't in the business of employing decent, honest, gentlemanly people. They're in the business of employing the jagoffs who built up their practice on thumping elementary school kids for their lunch money and lighting firecrackers up kittens asses when they were teenagers.

Just think, if it wasn't for government employment, these folks would be running around in the streets without anyone telling them what to do.

pyrotek85:Real Women Drink Akvavit: So, are they not trained in how to use a taser on a dog? That would have seemed a safer alternative, considering the setting.

I hadn't really thought about it before, but can tasers even be used on dogs safely? Most dogs weigh a good deal less than an adult human does, I wonder if there is a minimum weight required to avoid killing them.

It might kill them or it might do nothing with all the fur. But either way it seems like a good thing to try and is probably going to be less lethal and a bunch of bullets.

pyrotek85:Real Women Drink Akvavit: So, are they not trained in how to use a taser on a dog? That would have seemed a safer alternative, considering the setting.

I hadn't really thought about it before, but can tasers even be used on dogs safely? Most dogs weigh a good deal less than an adult human does, I wonder if there is a minimum weight required to avoid killing them.

I hadn't thought about it before either until you mentioned it, but considering we hear about humans being killed by tasers from time to time, it wouldn't surprise me if it could kill a dog as well.

Maybe we should get the USPS dudes and dudettes to train cops in how to handle dogs. I'm pretty sure the ones around here carry pepper spray or some other form of defense in case of an aggressive dog running free through the neighborhood, trying to eat people in uniforms.

My elderly mother dialed 911 by accident one time, and hung up. Cop came to our door, as they do when someone calls 911 and hangs up. They want to be sure there wasn't trouble that kept the person from completing the call, which is nice. What was a little disturbing is that, as I called my mother to the door to talk to the officer, he heard my dog bark and put his hand on his gun.

My dog is a chihuahua.

Kind of worrisome to be living your life, just like you always do, and then a cop comes to your door and puts his hand on his gun. I'm glad he was just being cautious and not some trigger-happy jerk. What's scary about cops is how much trust we put in them, and how badly they can fark us over, should they choose to.

Real Women Drink Akvavit:I'm pretty sure the ones around here carry pepper spray or some other form of defense in case of an aggressive dog running free through the neighborhood, trying to eat people in uniforms.

Our neighborhood guy can fend off the deadliest attack with a farking electricity bill.

Lots of the usual anti-cop butthurt in here. What were the cops supposed to do? Try and have a nice conversation with the dogs? They were fighting with each other, if the cops didn't intervene one of them may have been injured or even killed.

ransack.:Ok, wait "Freeman told NBCNews.com that the bigger, more aggressive dog seemed to be a pit bull and had a leash, but the other smaller dog didn't. It was unclear who the owners were."

Was the pitbull on the leash the dog defending the truck, or the invader? THIS DETAIL IS CRUCIAL AND OMITTED

Well if one of them was a stray, I'm assuming it didn't have a leash. So the pitbull likely belonged to the guy with the truck. Although it only mentions 'stray' once, so they might have meant it has an owner but just got away from them and was running loose, possibly still with it's leash attached.

"seemed to be a pit bull and had a leash" is a pretty low bar for noticing the breed. You could show the general public pretty much any muscular dog and the vast majority of them would call it a pit bull.

I know *a lot* of dog breeds, and even I thought several of these were pitbulls:Find the Pitbull

I 'liked" a page on Facebook (I know, I'm one of those) that is called Mr. Policeman, please don't shoot my dog. Basically people post to their wall incidents of cops shooting their dogs. The people who run the page try to corroborate that it was an unnecessary shooting as much as they can before allowing a posting. I am appalled at how many office involved shootings of dogs go on in the States. It would seem that the cops shoot dogs first without warning or thinking of an alternative. The page also points out when cops do good things for dogs (most often strays or abused dogs) so they aren't completely biased against cops.